Re: Negative string offsets

> Yeah, it wouldn't make any sense unless it supported ranges. Something like: > > if($filename[-4,4] === '.ext') ... > > although, I don't see how that is better than: > > if(substr($filename,-4) === '.ext') ... > > The latter is much clearer. FWIW, I realize they're different systems (for one thing, strings are not objects, here), but I think it's worth considering that this is really useful in Python, and the ranges work a bit differently (the second value is absolute, not relative, and both values are optional): >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4] '.' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:] '.baz' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:3] '' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:] '.baz' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:-1] '.ba' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:11] '.baz' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[-4:10] '.ba' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[:-4] 'foo.bar' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[4:7] 'bar' >>> "foo.bar.baz"[:] 'foo.bar.baz' Similarly, : as a range operator (here) makes it clear at a glance that it's not an array: [4:7] vs [4,7]. S